Peanut allergies dropped significantly in last 10 years, study found

A new study in the medical journal Pediatrics found that peanut allergies have dropped significantly in the last 10 years.

The change comes after a new recommendation was issued in 2015 about the best way to introduce peanuts to a child’s diet.

Peanut allergies decline

The backstory:

For decades, doctors had recommended delaying feeding children peanuts and other foods likely to trigger allergies until age 3. But in 2015, Gideon Lack at King’s College London, published the groundbreaking Learning Early About Peanut Allergy , or LEAP, trial.

The trial showed that introducing peanut products to infants starting as early as 4 months reduced the future risk of developing food allergies by more than 80%, and immediately sparked new guidelines urging early introduction of peanuts.